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Businesses, schools and organizations

are invited to join us this October.

The Valley Goes Pink is a grassroots, community-wide effort sponsored by Griffin Hospital, to create awareness about the need for regular mammograms, to help prevent breast cancer, to help raise funds for The Hewitt Center for Breast Wellness, and to showcase area organizations – all at the same time!

Join the businesses, municipalities, and schools below and:Dedicate a percentage of sales through a “pink promotion”“Pinkify” your business, office, school with ribbons or lightsHost a $5 casual / dress down or wear pink to work daySell Griffin Hospital wristbands or thumb bands

Get together with friends and neighbors and create your own event. Come

up with an original idea or copy another. Let us know what you’re doing! Contact Griffin Hospital Development Fund at 203.732.7504 or

development@griffinhealth.org.

All funds benefit The Hewitt Center for Breast Wellnessat Griffin Hospital.

Go Pink with us!

Ansonia

Emmett O’Brien Technical High SchoolAnsonia High SchoolThe Original Antonio’sMolto Bene at John J. Sullivan’sSpector Furniture

Beacon Falls

Beacon Falls PharmacyThe Original Antonio’s

Derby

Capelli SalonCity of Derby Derby High SchoolGrassy Hill Lodge Griffin HospitalJames Heating Oil LaSala: The Italian American Club of DerbyThe EdgeTown and Country Liquor

Milford

Penner Law Firm

Naugatuck

All About You Home Care ServicesBorough of NaugatuckJesse Camille’s RestaurantLineweber BrothersJohn McCormack, State Farm AgentJennifer Merrill, Coldwell Banker Realty2000 Naugatuck RotaryNaugatuck Valley Savings and LoanNaugatuck Visiting Nurses AssociationPink Petal SweetThe Howard Whittemore Library

Oxford

Oxford High School

Shelton

Shelton High SchoolLong Hill School

Aribella RestaurantBlanchette’s Sporting GoodsDoggie Styles Electric Cable Assemblies Greater Valley Chamber of CommerceThe Young Emerging Professionals Hair After SalonHilton Garden InnIl Palio RestaurantInline Plastics OEM ControlsPerry Hill SchoolPhysically FitPrudentialReal Estate TwoThe EdgeWellington’s Restaurant

Stratford

Homewood Suites by Hilton

Southport

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage

OUR THANKS to the following participants:

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Where a person decides to go for cancer care can make a big difference. There is a choice that combines the latest technology, some of the area’s most skilled radiation therapy specialists and an environment that inspires healing while providing the kind of personalized care and relationships patients deserve. The Center for Cancer Care at Griffin Hospital – The choice for cancer care just got a little easier.

Imagine radiation therapy that is better by design.Imagine Griffin Hospital.

The radiation therapy suite at Griffin’s Center for Cancer Care – one of two national show sites for Elekta, manufacturer of the Center’s state-of-the-art linear accelerator

The Center for Cancer Careat Griffin Hospital

350 Seymour Ave., Derby203.732.1260

www.griffi ncancercenter.org

The Only Hospital in ConnecticutNamed a Top Quality Performer

by The Joint Commission